RxDoctor Payments Data

Bradley Freilich, MD

Gastroenterology · Kansas City, MONPI 1659424810

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (36.7%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 44 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 34.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,111 and has fallen 75.8% since, to $1,481 in 2025.

$25,718in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 350 payments — averaging $73.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$9K
  • Novo Nordisk$3K
  • Dova Pharmaceuticals$3K
  • Endogastric Solutions, Inc$2K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • Gilead$1K
  • plus $6K from 38 others
$4,460,616in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 997 payments — averaging $4474.04 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1.4M
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$826K
  • Eli Lilly$371K
  • Gilead$329K
  • Genentech, Inc.$307K
  • Seqirus USA Inc$306K
  • plus $956K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$6,06424%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$9,44537%
  • Travel & lodging$2,59110%
  • Food & beverage$7,59230%
  • Education$260%

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$25,718 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 374 gastroenterology providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$70,322
Medicare patients
295
Services billed
530

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
MounjaroTirzepatide36$56,497
LinzessLinaclotide39$22,076
OzempicSemaglutide12$13,847
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf43$6,835
ErythromycinErythromycin Base18$5,786
Ursodiol32$5,468
Mesalamine17$4,990
Famotidine194$4,140
Mycophenolate Mofetil29$3,820
Colestipol Hcl30$2,794
Budesonide EcBudesonide12$1,560
Omeprazole39$957
Azathioprine14$555
Spironolactone33$550
Pantoprazole Sodium21$284

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$161$56,49736 claims
AbbVieLinzess$1,507$22,07639 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$2,901$13,84712 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$45$6,83543 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 374 gastroenterology providers in Missouri.

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